Custom PC – October 2019

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editing test. With its

RTX 2080 Ti GPU, it

also ripped through our

gaming benchmarks.

It never drops below

60fps in any of our tests

at 2,560 x 1,440, even if

you run Battlefield V with

ray tracing enabled and

set to High. It drops down

to a 31fps minimum

with these settings at

4K, which is borderline

playable, but the rest of its 4K frame rates are superb.

Meanwhile, the Corsair PCI-E 4 SSD delivered read

and write speeds of 4,906MB/sec and 4,178MB/

sec respectively. That’s incredible speed – more than

1,000MB/sec faster than the best PCI-E 3 SSDs, although

you’re only likely to see it in large file transfers.

However, thermal performance is mixed. The Scan’s

GPU delta T of 50°C is fine, but the CPU load delta T of

66°C is very high, even if it technically meant the CPU was

just within thermal limits. It’s not quiet either. The Corsair

Hydro H100i cooler produces more noise than most other

machines when idle at Scan’s settings, and it steps up

further when gaming, or in a full-system stress test.

Headsets and speakers might cover the noise during

a gaming session, but the Scan is never quiet and could

prove irritating if you want a quiet PC – you’ll at least

want to put it under your desk rather than on top of it.

Conclusion

Still, this PC isn’t designed for subtlety. The AMD CPU

delivers amazing multi-threaded power, and the

gaming performance is amazing. Likewise, the 2TB

PCI-E 4 SSD is huge and fearsomely quick, the memory

is excellent, and the motherboard and PSU are great.

The case has loads of space for spare storage too.

The noise is irritating, though, and this specification is also

overkill for many people. If you just want a PC for gaming, you

don’t need to spend extra on a 12-core CPU. If you want a PC

that does it all, though, this is a fast PC with a top-tier spec.

MIKE JENNINGS

VERDICT

Enormous speed for both content creation in gaming,

but it makes a fair bit of noise.

ZEN

+ Incredible CPU

pace

+ Solid gaming

abilities

+ Record-breaking

PCI-E 4 SSD

CHAOS

• Irritatingnoise


• Expensive


• Overkill for many
  people

OVERALLSCORE

86 %

PERFORMANCE

24 / 25

DESIGN

21 / 25

HARDWARE

22 / 25

VALUE

19 / 25

BENCHMARK RESULTS

GIMPIMAGE

EDITING

60,379

HANDBRAKEH.264

VIDEO ENCODING

813,573

LUXMARK

OPENCL

152,528

HEAVYMULTI-

TASKING

268,594

SYSTEM

SCORE

293,352

SHADOWOFTHETOMBRAIDER

2,560x1,440,HighestDetail,TAA

0 40 80 120 160

Scan 3XS Vengeance RTX Ti 85fps 109fps

3,840x2,160,HighestDetail,TAA

0 40 80 120 160

Scan 3XS Vengeance RTX Ti 49fps 59fps

TOTALWAR:WARHAMMERII

2,560x1,440,UltraDetail,DX11

0 40 80 120 160

Scan 3XS Vengeance RTX Ti 74fps 93fps

3,840x2,160,UltraDetail,DX11

0 40 80 120 160

Scan 3XS Vengeance RTX Ti 46fps 54fps

BATTLEFIELDV

2,560x1,440,Ultrasettings,DX11

0 40 80 120 160

Scan 3XS Vengeance RTX Ti 102fps 130fps

3,840x2,160,Ultrasettings,DX11

0 40 80 120 160

Scan 3XS Vengeance RTX Ti 69fps 80fps

2,560x1,440,Ultrasettings,DX12,HighDXR,DLSS

0 40 80 120 160

Scan 3XS Vengeance RTX Ti 60fps 67fps

3,840x2,160,Ultrasettings,DX12,HighDXR,DLSS

0 40 80 120 160

Scan 3XS Vengeance RTX Ti 31fps 36fps

Minimum Average